Elizabeth Esty Quotes

Lead poisoning is an insidious menace that robs our citizens of their fullest potential.

Mercury is a potent toxin that interferes with the human nervous system. Reducing this hazard will be a major public health breakthrough.

I do care about the mercury contamination which this country will be experiencing because of the attempted sellout by this administration to special interests which will result in more mercury in the blood of young children in America.

For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children.

Flint is to the lead issue what Three Mile Island was to nuclear power. People are stepping back and thinking, 'There still is lead in my home?'

Can you believe approximately 17 percent of American children ages 2 to 19 years are obese? How about this fact: approximately 60 percent of overweight children ages 5 to 10 already have at least one risk factor for heart disease? We are all to blame for this - parents, schools, kids - all of us.

That we have children coming into this world already polluted, at the same time we don't know what the effects of that pollution will be on their mental and physical development, is both bad policy and immorally wrong.

God doesn't just miraculously and physically intervene in the whole process, so if I just go and drop a bunch of chemicals and herbicides that leach into the groundwater, I can pray all day to keep my child healthy, but if the herbicides gone into the groundwater come up my well, my child's going to drink that water.

Government and other scientists have identified hundreds of chemicals that are linked to diseases in small concentrations and that are unregulated in drinking water or policed at limits that still pose serious risks.

The asbestos problem impacts everyone.

I was in chemical jail.

Mercury is a dangerous toxin. It needs to be reduced.

When people are involved, accidents will happen…. You don’t want to drink frack fluid.

Even when safety guidelines and regulations are in place, the rate of chemicals acceptable by law may be far higher than what is genuinely safe.

Every day, we are bombarded with a multitude of toxins in the environment. We know that the negative health impacts from this constant exposure can add up.

Farm workers are society's canaries. Farm workers - and their children - demonstrate the effects of pesticide poisoning before anyone else.

We have lived with deadly levels of air pollution for years, which have made us more vulnerable to coronavirus.

Diseases are a threat to us all. And so is climate change.

The biggest problem we have is not Ebola, it's not AIDS, it's electro smog.

The water crisis in Flint, Michigan, has shown us what can happen when we ignore the warning signs of lead poisoning and corroding pipes.

Reports have indicated that several border agents have contracted diseases through contact with the unaccompanied minors.

There are so many chemicals in things - that's why people are getting sick.

I confess that when I first read that smog is particularly hazardous to children, senior citizens, and physically active people, for a brief moment I thought, “I’m in the clear for at least 10 more years.”

High blood pressure is a major health crisis in the black community.

[H]as the CDC ever published a story about the dangers of catching diseases when you sleep with illegal aliens?